“I want you to know that I very much appreciate your help during this week’s Committee meeting in attempting to bring my anti-busing legislation to a vote,” Biden wrote on June 30, 1977, to Sen. James Eastland, The Washington Post reported.Gotta love the irony. Barack Obama pinned a medal on his chosen Vice President... a guy who fought desegregation.
Eastland was a plantation owner who believed blacks belonged to an inferior race, and forcefully fought desegregation throughout his career as a Democratic lawmaker from Mississippi.
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Unsurprisingly, Biden’s decision to highlight the civility of two abject racists has reasonably upset plenty of people.